11-letter words containing h, g
- barographic — Measured using a barograph.
- bath sponge — any of various common sponges, of the family Spongiidae, that have a skeletal network composed of fibers of spongin: collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean for their commercial value.
- bathing cap — a tight rubber cap worn by a swimmer to keep the hair dry
- bathing hut — a small waterside building where swimmers can change their clothes
- bathtub gin — homemade gin, especially gin made illegally during Prohibition.
- bathygraphy — The scientific description of the depth of the ocean.
- bbc english — Received Pronunciation.
- be laughing — to be in a favourable situation
- beach buggy — a low car, often open and with balloon tyres, for driving on sand
- beach grass — any of a genus (Ammophila) of deeply rooted, tough, perennial grasses that grow on sandy beaches and are often planted to combat beach erosion
- beach ridge — a ridge just inland from a beach, consisting of sand and gravel built up by storm waves
- bedclothing — bedclothes; bedding.
- beech grove — a grove of beech trees
- belly laugh — A belly laugh is a very loud, deep laugh.
- bellyaching — constant complaining
- benightment — the state of being in physical, moral, or intellectual darkness
- bequeathing — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- bergschrund — a crevasse at the head of a glacier
- bibliograph — to put in a bibliography.
- bibliophage — an ardent reader; a bookworm.
- big brother — People sometimes use Big Brother to refer to a person, government, or organization when they think it has complete control over people and is always checking what they do.
- big-hearted — If you describe someone as big-hearted, you think they are kind and generous, and always willing to help people.
- bing cherry — a dark-red variety of sweet cherry
- binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
- biographize — to write a biography of (someone)
- birthweight — the weight of an infant at birth.
- bit bashing — (Also "bit diddling" or bit twiddling). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of bit, flag, nibble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also bit bang, mode bit.
- black light — the invisible electromagnetic radiation in the ultraviolet and infrared regions of the spectrum
- blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blightingly — in a blighting manner
- blogosphere — In computer technology, the blogosphere or the blogsphere is all the weblogs on the Internet, considered collectively.
- bokhara rug — a Turkoman rug having a tan or red background and decorated with varied octagon patterns.
- bonefishing — the activity of fishing for bonefish
- book rights — the legal right to make use of the text of a printed book
- brachialgia — pain in the nerves of the upper arm.
- brachiating — Botany. having widely spreading branches in alternate pairs.
- brake light — a red light attached to the rear of a motor vehicle that lights up when the brakes are applied, serving as a warning to following drivers
- brattishing — decorative work along the coping or on the cornice of a building
- bright coal — coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.
- bright idea — suggestion: clever
- bright wool — the wool of sheep raised east of the Mississippi River.
- bright-eyed — eager; fresh and enthusiastic
- bright-line — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
- bring forth — to give birth to
- british gum — dextrin.
- bukhara rug — a kind of rug, typically having a black-and-white geometrical pattern on a reddish ground
- bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
- bullfighter — A bullfighter is the person who tries to injure or kill the bull in a bullfight.
- bunch grass — any of various grasses that grow in tufts
- bunch light — a light consisting of a group of small light bulbs mounted in a reflecting box.